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bumble bees LOVE catmint!

I just had to report that my blooming mounds of (Walker's Low) catmint are just being mobbed by bumblebees day after day. There is a bumble just about every 8" working away, and this goes on all day long day after day. Never saw so many bumblebees working so closely together! The catmint is a real winner in my new pollinater flowerbed.

The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive... -Tennyson

Re: bumble bees LOVE catmint!

Yes they do! I might grow a bunch in a container next year so I can check 'em out from my kitchen window :-)

And in my yard caryopteris (bluebeard) is the big draw in August - absolutely mobbed with honeybees and bumblebees for about a week straight. (it's a small deciduous shrub with sweet-smelling purple flowers in late summer.)